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W. Deaf. Mere "incompetence," in this startling outpouring, is practically a caress. It does not surprise me that critics were attacked that is par for the course, and a part of the job, like having dinner early. What astounds me is that a man of Stravinsky's eminence should carry on so, or at least carry on so in public He has it made, even to 80th birthday obeisance.

Besides, the most interesting thing he said, at least to me, is "that Ingmar Bergman's Stockholm production of "The Rake's Progress," which has fascinated me from a distance, was "the most dramatic theatrical experience of my life." Maybe the moral is "Bewart the Octogenarian." Once whea THE PHENOMENAL ineptitude of Ravinia's public relations really 'came a cropper with Igor Stravinsky. After months of hoarding the wide-open secret of Stravinsky's engagement as conductor of a 1962 festival concert to be shared with the devoted Robert Craftan item good for at least some local reassurance that there really will be a festival the' directors found their plum squashed at the bottom of a New York Times column of Stravinsky activities, casually handed out by that same Mr. Craft This has happened fo and in the oblivious land of committee rule it will happen again. More to the news point is Mr. Stravinsky's possible capture during his sojourn by television's night owls who fasten avid eyes on palpitant guests and remove symbolic thumbs from the self-expression dike by inquiring, "What do you think of the critics?" The topic is pretty thread bare, but Mr.

Stravinsky, who turns 80 June 17, is liable to put it right back in good standing. To my considerable aston ishment he recently cut loose on three of the tribe, not on television but in print. He gave i Early Successes Help Adult Mardi Gras Calls for Color H. BARNUM Stravinsky Albert Goldberg of the Los Angles Times a collector's item column in a furious letter stemming from Mr. Goldberg's review of his opera, "The Rake's Progress," and in "Expositions and Developments," his collaboration with Mr.

Craft Doubleday, he takes off for 10 pages, with particular reference to two of the New York tribe whom he refuses to "immortalize," but identifies as BY PROF. LESLIE J. NASON University of Southern California The gap between the successful and the unsuccessful widens as the years go on. Children tend to stay in one group unless something changes them. Without help from parents or teachers, children seldom change from the unsuccessful to the successful group.

Your children need success every day. Success in one field brings success in another. Start by helping your child become successful at some one thing. Father Helps Scotty was timid on the playground. His father erected a iset of climbing bars for him in the backyard so that he could gain coordination in climbing, swinging and jumping.

His father played ball with him and went swimming with him. VT MARY MIDDLETON- FLOWERS AND gardens lost some time to the space age yesterday as members of the Garden Club of America sat glued to a tiny transistor radio at a luncheon in the Woman's Athletic Club. When CoL John Glenn's history making space flight was oyer, conversation turned again to plans for the club's exhibit in the 1962 Chicago World Flower and Garden show March April 1 in McCormick Place. The Garden club's section of the show will be keyed to the modern age. Its featured garden will be natterned on a design of colorful scjuares as in a Mondrian painting.

Brilliant orange and yellow tulips will alternate with squares of brown gravel, with borders of dwarf arbor vitae forming the out-, lines. A wall will inclose the garden area, which will be accented with a series of arches designed by Architect Irving Colburn a member of the Chicago Horticultural society board to form a contemporary arbor. Competitive flower arrange-'ments which will be changed every other day will be displayed in niches along the wall, and arrangements of vegetables and foliage will be set on pedestals along the garden path. Quiet Pool A quiet pool will set off the display's horticultural section. Along the back, wall will be a garden which Mrs.

E. Harrison Manierre is. designing in memory of her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Carter H.

Harrison. It will have a large antique bird cage filled with exotic birds as its focal point. Even the herb garden which Mrs. Albert Day Farwell is creating will be on a modern design. She is planning a checkerboard pattern, with 16 varieties of herbs planted in painted chimney flues alter-.

nating with areas of colored gravel. Guests at the luncheon had a sample of her herbs as she distributed tussy mussies little sprays of fragrant leaves. William A. P. Pullman; president of the Horticultural society, was telling the women about the black tie dinner he and the society's trustees will give in the Sheraton-Blackstone hotel March 23, the night before the show opens.

Guests will go on to McCormick Place for a special preview of the flower show. Mrs. Lawrence F. McClure is chairman and Mrs. Arthur C.

Nielsen, co-chairman of the Garden club section of the show. A new medal to be awarded this year for an outstanding flower arrangement is the Dorothea Wallace medal, named for the late Mrs. Walter F. Wallace who was show chairman last year. The Garden Club of America also awards the Bulkley medal for an exhibit of exceptional merit and the Fenwick medal for a flower arrangement.

Colonial Wars More than 150 members of the Society of Colonial Wars and the National Society of Colonial Dames will gather in the Arts club tomorrow night to hear British Consul General Andrew G. Gilchrist describe the. Colonial wars from the British point of view. Because the party will be celebrating George Washington's 230th birthday, Mr. Gilchrist will tell what the British really thought of Washington, and.

what English school children are taught about him. tAn accordion player will provide music during the cocktail hour. Here and There The North Shore league will present a check for $3,500 to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at a luncheon at noon today in the Rotunda club. The league, composed of 30 women, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The institute, located at 401 E.

Ohio st, is devoted to the physical, social and psychological rehabilitation of the (Third of a Series) WE ALL KNOW adults who are successful in everything they do. Their business life, their home life, their social life are all successful. It seems that they can't fail. On the other hand, we also know adults, just as well educated and just as personable, who consistently fail. The first group is on the spiral of success; the second on the spiral of failure.

Parents must make every effort to get their children off to a good start in school, particularly in the primary years. Children who succeed regularly become used to success. They are sure of themselves; they expect to succeed. They are happy at home. They get their lessons at school.

They play the games at recess. They like school. They are on the spiral of success. Spiral of Failure Some children, however, take an opposite tack. These children are not able to read as well as the others and are soon afraid to read in class.

The? lose confidence in handling numbers in arithmetic. They fail to make friends. Their papers are untidy. They dislike school. Any one of these problems can start a child on a spiral of failure.

TTAVE YOU ever been in New Orleans? If not, you'd better go. It's a nation of queer places; day and night a show!" A New Orleans visitor wrote those word's in 1860. If it was true then, it surely is now at carnival time. The festivities in New Orleans actually began with the Twelfth Night Revelers' ball on January 6. They will reach a climax on Mardi Gras day.

The derivation of the word carnival is interesting. It comes from two Latin words meaning farewell to meat, signifying the period of feasting before the 40 meatless days of Lent. This year Mardi Gras, French for "Fat Tuesday," will be celebrated on March 6, the day before Ash Wednesday. Historians say that the carnival had its origin in ancient Rome, then was taken up by Paris. The idea caught on in New Orleans in 1838 when a group of Parisian schooled sons of wealthy planters returned home and duplicated the gayety and feasting of the Parisian events.

The New Orleans celebrations also have in them some of the features of the famous Venetian carnival. All of the New Orleans carnival organizations give annual balls and many present dazzling parades. This year the parades begin on February 25, ending with the one staged by the Mistick "Krewe of Comus on the night of Mardi Gras. Parade costumes are colorful and seasoned' with ingenious ideas. Clowns, cannibals, and grotesque monsters mingle with spacemen and royally robed figures! YouTl also see exotically plumed oriental princes and queens of Sheba.

All of them cavort to the cadence of Dixieland jazz played as only New Orleans bands can play it. Imaginative themes are used in creating the parade floats and to add verve to the numerous carnival balls. These may be mythological, historical, operatic, or based on a current event. The fun loving crowds, the fabulous floats, and the gay carnival balls combine to create a fantastic festival. IT'S HIGH" NOON on Mardi Gras day.

The three sketched above are watching a panorama of gutter, fantasy, and color from a perfect vantage point a French quarter balcony. Below them moves the highlight event the entire New Orleans carnival the gorgeous Krewe of Rex parade. As Rex, the lord of Misrule, and his beautiful queen. pass, the pageantry reaches a climax. There's plenty of excitement in the air and the visitor on the left has captured it in his carefully coordinated outfit It's the time and place for color and he uses it with sophistication.

He knows color as well as his way around the Vieux Carre. While his colorful clothes fit his holiday mood, he has chosen them with excellent taste, leaving the flamboyant to the maskers below. Since he is a blond, his color selection for a sports jacket Is perfect. It's loomed with a definite golden overtone softly blended into a heather background. The fabric is a handsomely textured Scotch Shetland, distinguished by a smart windowpane check in a subdued green.

With it he wears a solid colored vest in pirates' gold. His shirt is a button-down 'oxford in a pale yellow, with his dark green knit tie picking up the green of the windowpane. He adds dark green slacks to the ensemble. His easy fitting loafers will give him comfort, when later he browses around the by-ways and time worn patios of old New Orleans. His male companion is enjoying the excitement in a dark blue double breasted blazer.

He gets his color accent from a sports shirt boldly checked in blue topped with a solid blue ascot to match his jacket. His slacks are a lighter shade cf blue. He too has made sure of foot comfort with a pair of supple slipons. Since it's frequently cool in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, both men have brought topcoats. Mardi Gras may not be on your schedule, but you'll want casual" clothes like these wherever you have your fun this spring.

i oaay iviin, CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1962 PART 3- PAGE 3 I was at a concert in Paris, aE ducked out in my best bib and tucker, I said good evening to Pierre Monteux, quite forgetting that his recent Ravinia performances had not been up to his formidable standard. He did not say good evening back. With the baleful glare of an offended baby he said haughtily, "It looks like the same person, but it is not an improvement." Courage, comrades. Soon Scotty was able to play the games on the playground and lost his timidity. He was on the spiral of success.

Becomes Successful Jeff had little to contribute in the classroom. His first grade teacher reported that he seldom said anything. His mother took Jeff to the zoo and the museum, to the library, and on shell hunting walks along the beach. She listened to him talk about the things he saw. When he became successful in explaining these things to his mother, he soon was willing to contribute his share of information in the classroom.

Success need not be a distant dream. It can be achieved now. Tomorrow: Help your child regain the spiral of success. appealing as the innocent Maria, and Rita Moreno gives a fiery performance as the sexy, spunky Anita. Richard Beymer has a likable, boyish grin and a warm pleasant voice, and Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris, as the rival gang leaders, are ominously effective.

It's a cleverly stylized and dramatized depiction of a bloody story which probably will appeal most to those who like lengthy musicals, and to the younger generation who ar fascinated by "rumbles." Their elders may find it depressing. 10 Chicagoans Will Bow Friday at Polish Red and White Ball wrtniiii i BY MERRITT POWERS ence in the cycle of centuries. Theirs is an annual manifestation evoked with the magic of music and of memories transmitted thru loyal generations. A brilliant old world event that had its beginning in the 16th Century as the Bal Amarantowy, the American version is the White and Red ball, which takes its name from the national colors. Friday night will see the 23d unfolding of this courtly pageantry in the Grand ballroom of the Hilton hotel as the Legion of Young Polish Women holds Its cotillion.

Ten young women will bow, gowned in traditional white and carrying red roses. Pomp and Circumstance The presentation ceremony follows a set pattern. At 11 o'clock the dance floor clears, the strains of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" sound thru the ballroom, and the belles of the ball circle the room each on the arm of her father. A semicircle then forms in front of the orchestra. As her name is announced State Treasurer Francis S.

Lorenz is master of ceremonies this year each girl sweeps a deep curtsy; as the last is named, the fathers lead their daughters thru swirling cotillion patterns. Then, as the music swings into waltz time, young escorts break in to claim the belles and a group of post-debutantes gowned in red take the dads for a whirl. Mrs. T. R.

Byczkowski, an authority on the history of the Polish cotillion, points out that the White and Red ball has two distinctive marks. One is the stately polonaise at the opening. The other is a fiery folk dance, the Bally Mazur White Mazurka which Mrs. Byczkowski laugh- A OlV BY IRENE "CHICAGO POLES have their counterpart of the legendary Brigadoon which periodically takes form for a night of jubilant exist- Irene Brajner ingly describes as the original Polish twist It's Men's Dance Traditionally, the Baily Mazur, bringing the festivities to a breath-taking climax and close, is danced when the first streaks of dawn appear. The women are merely foils for their partners in the White Mazurka.

It is a men's dance, flirtatious in mood, intricate of pattern, a foment of leaps and lightning turns. The couples performing it Friday have been coached by Eugene Raci-borski, a war refugee now residing here. While men are trying to conquer space, clothes closets indicate that women are, too. p' Courtly old world customs surround the introduction of young women at the White and ball. To be presented at the 23d cotillion Friday are (from left) Cynthia Balonek, Kathleen Carto, Kathleen Gabry, Jennifer Brajner, Ellen Wisniewski, Ellen Raczynski, Carole Przybylo, and Letitia Piet.

Irene Brajner (photo at left) and Dianne McLeod also Will bow. TRIBUNE Photo br Edward B. MeGIIIJ Is Savage Tale of Slums Dennis the Menace 3) NEW kind of sam-l wich: one piece of bread C-K b'tween two layer of pea- 'West Side BY MAE TINEE SOCIAL significance, with song and dance, just about sums up this beautifully photographed modern tragedy. It is the story of senseless, savage hatred in the streets of New York. The Jets are moronic, shiftless lads who seek status thru their gang, and prey on the Puerto Ricans.

They, in turn, band together as the Sharks, fight back. A harried, stupid policeman hates them all. A boy and a girl are trapped between the feuding gangs, who plunge wildly into battle without the wit to fore Story Movie see the consequences. There are three dead youths and one more headed for the same, if legally administered, fate when it's ail over. The camera has captured the essence of the shadowy, shabby slums where the gangs prowl and the script echoes the rowdy, brassy humor of the young exhibitionists, but this Is a case when the big screen sometimes is a handicap.

When the giant sized, tear-stained faces of a desolated boy and girl fill the entire front of a theater, it seems incongruous for these young lovers to break "WEST SIDE STORY" Prsdvccd by Robert Win; directed br Wise end Jerome Robbins; screenplay by Ernest Lehman, based oa the loy by Robert H. Griffith and Harold S. Prince; In Ponavision 70 and Technicolor; released by United Artists Corporation at Michael Todd theater. THE CAST Mori Notallt Wood Tony Richard Beymer Riff Ross Tomblm Anita Rita Moreno Bernardo Georve Chakiris Lieut. Schrank Simon Oakland Officer Krvpk Bill Bramely Dec Ned Glass into song.

Some of the music is fresh and bright, some of it tiresomely repetitious, but all the members of the cast dance like demon. Natalie Wood is girlish and.